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THE QUOTE
“Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love. I’d stepped in it a few times.” — Rita Rudner
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FUNNY HOW?
Funny world, isn’t it?
Funny as in Louis CK winning a Grammy award for his “Hilarious” album/DVD/thing.
Funny as in Rick Warren promising to go to jail over the Obama administration’s new health care/contraception ruling.
Jailbird?
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Funny as in me pasting about a hundred and sixty seven Facebook posts in yesterday’s Pencil, congratulating FB-ers on their brilliant thoughts and then scrolling through the social medium today and seeing that everybody’s back to being boring again.
Funny as in US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and his wife being robbed at machete-point while on vacation in Nevis.
Funny as in Apple possibly being legally estopped from using its iPad brand in China because some little company had trademarked the name there more than a decade ago.
Estop It!
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Funny that I used a form of the word estop in the above item — proof that my crossword puzzle addiction has taken over my life.
Funny as in this stupid winter coming back to South Central Indiana.
Funny as in disgraced former New York Governor Elliot Spitzer defining love for Valentine’s Day on the Big Think.
Can This Be Love?
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Funny as in Alfred Lawson (the founder of the College of Lawsonomy) describing his own birth as “the most momentous occurrence since the birth of mankind.”
Funny as in the dearth of imagination in Hollywood, illustrated by the fact that at least 50 film sequels or remakes are being planned at this moment — they include:
- A “Wizard of Oz” prequel
- A third “Iron Man”
- A sixth “The Fast and the Furious”
- Another “Superman”
- “Zoolander” again
- “Dirty Dancing” redux
- More “Smurfs”
- The hundredth “Austin Powers”
- The thousandth “Pirates of the Caribbean”
- The millionth “Godzilla”
- The billionth “Scarface”
- The trillionth “Terminator”
They give out awards for this stuff?
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LOVE IS ALL AROUND
Valentine’s Day. Being a professional contrarian, I’m morally obligated to sneer at the whole deal.
The Loved One reminded me yesterday that the first VD we spent together (we’d been seeing each other for some five and a half months at the time), I made no mention of the February 14th shebang but instead had flowers sent to her office on the 15th.
She found the off-day gesture charming. Sort of. I think.
Anyway, we’re being flooded with VD images today so I thought I’d get into the mood, just to be a sport.
BuzzFeed lists eleven trees that look like hearts.
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And getting into the more pragmatic spirit of the day, BuzzFeed also lists seven trees that look like vaginas.
Pierced
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Like I said; funny world, no?
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LOVE IS ALL AROUND II
I mean, honestly, which American fictional figure represents Valentine’s Day more than Mary Richards?
You know beyond a shadow of a doubt that if you were dating her and ignored Valentine’s Day, you would soon be, well, not dating her.
The opening of the “Mary Tyler Moore Show” is a piece of cultural iconography. From her big, floppy bellbottoms to her accidentally crushing Ted Baxter‘s hat, Mary Richards represents those first, tentative, sometimes stumbling steps of women into the workplace in the early 1970s.
And when Mary tosses her tam into the air on a crowded downtown Minneapolis street corner as an old-fashioned babushka’d lady looks on in probable disapproval, you know you’re seeing America change right before your eyes.
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